...They also have the game’s best pitching prospect in righthander Dylan Bundy, who made his major league debut in September at age 19. In scouting director Gary Rajisch’s first draft with Baltimore, the club landed another potential frontline starter in Kevin Gausman, the No. 4 overall pick.

Beyond Bundy and Gausman, the Orioles farm system lacks depth. But if the club can continue to win at the major league level and Duquette can keep plugging holes, Baltimore won’t have to rush prospects and will have time to build up its system.

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Kline and Marin were the 2nd and 3rd round picks this year. They played pretty well, but obviously we'll know a lot more after next year. I believe Wright was a 2011 draft pick. The 1b they took in the 4th or 5th round looks like he can hit a little.

It would look better with Machado still on the list; he is no longer eligible because of too much major league PT. But it's not deep at all, and other than Bundy and maybe Gausman there's no impact talent.

I was surprised that the Dodgers were so quick to cut bait on Tony Delmonico. He'd never really had a bad season until 2012, and he always looked to me like a guy who might turn it up a notch if he didn't have to learn a new position every two or three weeks.

It looks like Sharlon Schoop isn't going to make it to the majors. Jonathan Schoop should adopt his brother's name so we can have someone named Sharlon Schoop in our lives. Or change it to Scharlon Shoop, just to be entirely confusing.

Is it in his glove? Oh no, that's just his arm.
Is it in his bat? Oh no, that's just his charm.

Has anyone else ever seen the Shoop Shoop Girls at Great Falls, Montana? We were there in 2007 and they were the most awesomely amateurish group of in game entertainers I've ever seen. It looked like they were led by a 60 year old Dance Academy owner who had 3 other ladies in costume. They went around the ballpark recruiting women and girls for their bottom of the 7th dance routine, which was holding up one or the other side of poster board with some word on it, at key times during Sweet Caroline. It was awesomely awful.

Orioles last six first-round picks are Gausman, Bundy, Manny Machado, Matthew Hobgood, Brian Matusz, and Matt Wieters, all with picks between 3 and 5. That's actually a pretty fair haul for those picks.

Before that, though, it was Nick Markakis and about a decade of utter crap.

Orioles last six first-round picks are Gausman, Bundy, Manny Machado, Matthew Hobgood, Brian Matusz, and Matt Wieters, all with picks between 3 and 5. That's actually a pretty fair haul for those picks.

The Hobgood pick was widely panned at the time. Some of the players selected after Hobgood; Mike Trout, Drew Storen, Zach Wheeler, Aaron Crow, Mike Leake, and Mike Minor. I see Billy Hamilton and Jason Kipnis in the second. It's early and I haven't had my first cup of coffee, but if I look harder I'm sure I'd get even more annoyed.